References On Petroleum Economy

This is article represents the standard "it's about oil"
argument. We strongly disagree with it's position but it's important to look
at the argument involved. The later references in this section refute many
of Pfeiffer's claims. Synthetic oil is moving along (and is an ecological
disaster). Oil reserves are debatable quantity. There is much to oil besides
"preserving civilization". And so forth.

The Background is Oil by Dale Allen Pfeiffer [For many it is difficult to
accept the truth about the events of September 11th without seeing the context
of an unavoidable global crisis that cannot be postponed or evaded. The myth
of perpetual American prosperity is destroyed by this layman-friendly analysis
of the global oil picture and the hard choices facing the planet. Enron employees
are only adding to a list of innocent American victims that is going to increase
rapidly. There are solutions, however, that do not necessitate support for
the global dictatorship that is rapidly falling upon us all. Many thanks to
Dale Allen Pfe

Canada Is Unlocking Petroleum From Sand By JAMES BROOKE Ted Shehinski for
The New York Times One of Suncor Energy's Millennium Project sites in northeast
Alberta. The company has sharply lowered the cost of extracting oil from sand.
Issue in Depth• Earth Science: The Environment

Electric And Hybrid Vehicles An Overview Of The Benefits, Challenges, And
TechnologiesBy Robert Q. RileyElectric cars have been around since the inception
of the automobile. But in the early race for dominance, the internal combustion
engine (ICE) quickly won out as the best power system for cars. Although the
electric powertrain was superior in many respects, as a source of energy,
the battery was no match for the high energy content, ease of handling, and
cheap and abundant supplies of petroleum motor fuel. Today, nearly a century
after the electric vehicle (EV) was forced into near oblivion, it seems that
EVs may actually become the ultimate winner. As easily-recoverable petroleum
deposits dwindle, automobile populations soar, and cities become choked with
combustion by-products, the ICE is increasingly b

Introduction "I am not a criminal.I am new to Cairo. I live in Baghdad."
He told the storyof his dream and the buried treasure,and he was so believable
in the telling thatthe night patrolman began to cry. Always,the fragrance
of truth has that effect.-Rumi, In Baghdad, Dreaming of Cairo:In Cairo, Dreaming
of Baghdad (1260-1273)(Rumi 1996: 210)

Introduction Barely seven years after a major military attack that left
Iraqi industry, hospitals, water and sewage treatment plants devastated, and
caused thousands of civilian casualties as well as widespread sickness among
American soldiers, the United States government prepared to go to war again
against Iraq in February 1998. The Clinton administration's reasons for initiating
this war--although noticeably shifting as the weeks went by--were clothed
in a dramatic language. "... [I]t is very important for us to make clear"--said
Secretary of State Albright in a Columbus, Ohio "town hall meeting" on February
19, 1998-- "that the United States and the civilized world cannot deal with
somebody who is willing to use...weapons of mass destruction on his own people,
not to speak of

The Main Point The purpose behind these 3 articles is to lay
out a historical overview of class struggle in the Middle East, especially
in relation to oil. The book looks at the period from 1973 to 1992 and
sees the Gulf War as the attempt to terrorize and decompose the working class
in the Middle East in order to hold down pressure for higher wages and standards
of living. The necessity for this is the increasing rebelliousness of
the population there to IMF austerity plans and the coming vast increase in
capital accumulation. Basically the only way to force the working class
to live amongst vast wealth with decreasing income is to increase the level
of militarization and to break up the working class.

Although minerals and energy minerals are fundamental to our existence, the
facts of these resources and of industries which produce these materials are
subject to many myths and much misinformation. This is unfortunate for it
clouds the ability of individuals in a democracy to make intelligent choices.
Some of the distortions are deliberately made by political interests who play
upon the fears and hopes of the electorate, and then in the role of the defender
of the public interest against the oil or mining companies seek to obtain
votes by this device. Some statements are made from ignorance, and some are
made by people who have their own political and social agendas which they
wish to perpetrate upon the public. Some are made by people who are a bit
over enthusiastic about a par

CHAPTER 13: OPEC AND CRUDE OILOil is the major fuel used by people today.
Because oil is liquid, it is easy to mine by drilling and pumping rather than
excavation, and it is easy to transport in tankers and pipelines. Nevertheless,
the history of oil supply has been dominated by the time and place of discoveries,
with enormous results on the history of the 20th century. It has also been
dominated by a few individuals, companies, and nations, with greed, superb
intelligence, and unbelievable stupidity. Before we get into that, however,
I want to make the point that petroleum and petroleum products have been minor
components in international trade for thousands of years.

Bitumen and Egyptian Mummies.‹Bitumen is a spongy cake-like substance that
forms when much of the volatile content of crude oil has evaporated off. Because
it is light enough to float, bitumen "rafts" form from oil seeps deep under
the Dead Sea, and eventually pop to the surface where they can be collected
from rafts or boats. In ancient time, bitumen was much in demand by the Egyptians
for use in preserving mummies, and a bitumen trade built up across the Sinai
Desert. Nasty little wars broke out over these trade routes, and the rise
and fall of the Nabateans of Petra is linked with this trade. The Chinese
invent Oil Drilling.‹The Chinese used oil from natural seeps as fuel to boil
salt. They invented the oil pipeline, using lengths of bamboo to take oil
to the salt pans. As an e

By DAVID BROWNEXPLORER Correspondent Has Production Peaked? Bulls
and Bears Duel Over Supply These are the oft-cited charts A.I. Levorsen used
in his February 1964 AAPG BULLETIN article, "Big Geology for Big Needs." Levorsen's
projected demand numbers for the year 2000 proved to be remarkably accurate
-- but the supply expectations have fallen far short of the current reality.

The world is running out of crude oil. No, it isn't. And there you
have the two sides of a simmering controversy in petroleum geology and the
oil industry in general.

Do the pessimists have a point? In his paper "Big Geology for Big Needs,"
published in the February 1964 AAPG BULLETIN, A.I. Levorsen projected total
United States oil demand of 22 million barrels per day in 2000, with U.S.
oil supply of 14 million barrels per day (see figures, left).

Russia fears US oil companies will take over world's second-biggest reserves

By Andrew Buncombe in Washington 26 September 2002 Internal links Britain
fights to restrain US over combative UN resolution Eighty more Labour MPs
ready to rebel, Blair is warned British dossier is scorned as 'propaganda'
March 'will be biggest anti-war gathering' Russia fears US oil companies will
take over world's second-biggest reserves

US claims proof of Iraq terror link Democrat leader rages at Bush's 'patriot'
claim Deadpan Rumsfeld digs in over Germany Donald Macintyre: Mr Blair would
be wise not to ignore the unease over his Iraq policy

[ Home | 9/11 Webpage] AFGHANISTAN, COLOMBIA, VIETNAM:THE DEEP POLITICS
OF DRUGS AND OIL Part One: Overview Since World War Two, the United States
has had in effect two conflicting styles of conducting foreign policy, one
for other developed states, and a quite different style for regions of little
economic interest apart from their mineral resources -- above all oil and
natural gas.

As a general rule, the US has worked through the established governments
of developed states. But in Third World areas and regions with oil or other
minerals, the US has done whatever it thought necessary to secure access when
it wished to do so. As Michael Tanzer observed some years ago, a number of
CIA-engineered coups in the 1950s and 1960s, starting with Iran in 1953, can
be related to the intentions of those countries to nationalize their oil companies.

Seidman 'bullish' on war Saturday, October 12, 2002 Hours after Congress
authorized President Bush to use force in Iraq, an economic adviser under
four U.S. presidents told Grand Rapids business leaders Friday that going
to war "is probably the most bullish thing I can think of."

Former FDIC chairman Bill Seidman, who served during the Nixon, Ford, Reagan
and the senior Bush administrations, said defeating Saddam Hussein and controlling
Iraqi oil is "at least as important as eliminating weapons of mass destruction."

Seidman, a chief commentator for CNBC, said the prevailing view that a war
would prolong and even deepen a bear market is the "most misleading to the
market today."

"Oil prices fluctuating is a very large drag on the economy -- ours and the
world's," said Seidman, 81. "If we are in Iraq, nobody can use oil as a weapon."

Click Here to order the report online. * “Dig more coal – the PCs are coming:
Being digital was supposed to mean less demand for hard energy. It isn’t turning
out that way,” Forbes, May 31, 1999, pp 70-72.

Biofuels | Wind | Solar | Hydro Home | Search | Subscribe The Seven
Sisters Chapter 13 - The Reckoning It is time we began the process of demystifying
the inner sanctum of this most secret of industries. -- Senator Church,
December 1973AS SOON as the embargo began, in October 1973, the seven sisters
were compelled, at the risk of forfeiting their concessions, to be the instruments
of the world-wide cutback in oil. They had to allocate their oil in a way
that would not appear to defy the Arabs' boycott, yet would satisfy their
customers throughout the world. And the American companies had to enforce
an embargo of their own home country. The angry question came up ferociously:
where are the oil companies' true loyalties? To put it another way, it
was an abrupt test of the companies' multi-nationality; could they, in this
crisis, conti

Mar. 7, 2003, 1400 PST (FTW) -Journalist Julian Darley has a very good website,
http://www.globalpublicmedia.com/, featuring video interviews with notables
such as Colin Campbell and Matthew Simmons. Matthew Simmons is the president
of Simmons & Co. International, a company which specializes in investment
banking to the energy industry. The Campbell interview1 is a very informative
chat at the petroleum geologist’s home in County Cork, Ireland. It is well
worth perusal. The Matthew Simmons interview2 was recorded in an office of
his business suite, and is also very

ADVERTISEMENTDaily demand for oil in China is expected to rise by 260,000
barrels this year to 5.14 million barrels per day, the IEA, adviser on energy
policy to 26 industrialised nations, said in its latest monthly report.

Global oil demand is expected to rise by 300,000 bpd, according to IEA estimates.

Taleban in Texas for 1997 Talks on Gas Pipeline That Led to the War Against
Terrorism in Afghanistan

by Ma Nguyen Tong 27-1-2002 In a revealing look at how the US military action
in Afghanistan was motivated by something other than terrorism concerns, the
Enron debacle quickly exposed that the September 11 terrorist attacks on the
United States was only a propitious pretext to occupy the country and extract
its badly needed energy resources. As late as April 2001, the United States
government had ordered Enron and Unocal to begin destroying records of its
negotiations with the Taleban in order to minimise the exposure of the fact
that the war in Afghanistan had been planned long before the terrorist attacks.

The United States tried in 1997 to negotiate with the then-ruling Taleban
to construct a 1,300km pipeline to carry gas across Afghanistan's harsh terrain
so it could be sent to Pakistan and India, bringing vast amounts of money
to energy companies in the U.S., including Enron. The Taleban agreed, but
only on certain conditions regarding U.S. policy in the Middle East and towards
the Palestinian question. A senior delegation from the Taleban movement in
Afghanistan therefore went the United States in December 1997 for talks with
Unocal, an international energy company, that wanted to construct a gas pipeline
from Turkmenistan across Afghanistan to Pakistan. It failed because of the
conditions demanded by the Taleban, and Israel was then instructed to step
up the ante and create a pr

Geology and the Oil Producing ProletariatIan Chambers, director of the Office
for Central America of the ILO (of the United Nations), declared that the
indigenous population of the world, estimated at 300 million, live in zones
which have 60% of the natural resources of the planet.

Therefore the "MULTIPLE CONFLICTS DUE TO THE USE AND FINAL DESTINATION OF
THEIR LANDS AS DETERMINED BY THE INTEREST OF GOVERNMENTS AND COMPANIES IS
NOT SURPRISING(...)THE EXPLOITATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES (OIL AND MINERALS)
AND TOURISM ARE THE PRINCIPAL INDUSTRIES WHICH THREATEN INDIGENOUS TERRITORIES
IN AMERICA" (interview with Martha Garcia in "La Jornada". May 28, 1997).
Behind the investment projects comes the pollution, prostitution and drugs.
In other words, the reconstruction/reorganization of the destruction/depopulation
of the zone. (Subcommendante Marcos 1997)